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SECTION XVIII. 



BREEDING FOR THE TURF OLD AND N E\\ BLOOD THE CKITISII RACER THE 



MOST USEFUL SPECIES OF THE GENUS — VULGAR ERRORS RESPECTING 

 ARABIAN HORSES — THE TRUE RACER CONFINED TO ENGLAND AND IRE- 

 LAND ANECDOTE OF A GERMAN KILL-DEVIL OF MATCHEM AND BRIL- 

 LIANT HORSES OF THE DESERT ANECDOTE OF THE DUKE OF CUM- 

 BERLAND FORM OF AN ARABIAN PEDIGREE THE ENGLISH PEDIGREE 



BAY BOLTON, BONNY BLACK, AND SAMPSON — -ENGLISH PROGENITORS OF 

 OUR BEST MODERN RACERS DISPUTED PEDIGREE OF ECLIPSE. 



IN the section of the Breeding Stud, I promised some separate con- 

 siderations on breeding for the turf All Horses intended for this pur- 

 pose, it is well known must be thorough-bred ; in plain terms, both 

 their sires and dams must be of the purest blood of the Asiatic or 

 African coursers exclusively, and this must be attested in an authentic 

 pedigree, throughout whatever number of English descents. The ac- 

 cidental deviations, or exceptions to this general rule, will appear in the 

 sequel. The greater, indeed, the number, or the older the pedigree, 

 the more valuable, since, as has been already explained, we have had 

 no southern Horses imported of late years, in any degree comparable 

 to certain famous individuals of former times. Pedigrees extend as far 

 back as the Helmsley Turk, belonging to the Duke of Buckingham; 

 the Morocco Barb, of the Lord General Fairfax; the Lay ton Barb, and 

 the White Turk of Oliver Cromwell, or his stud-groom, Richard Place, 

 but no farther. Subsequently to the time of Flying Childers, the breed 

 becoming more numerous, the pedigrees are regular and full. These, 

 with a great variety of anecdotes, respecting turf concerns, and the 

 most celebrated racers, have been laboriously collected by Mr. Pick, of 

 York, in his Turf Register ; and in another valuable publication, inti- 

 tuled, rhe General Stud Book, into every page and line of which, I 

 have pryed, with all the ardour, and with all the enjoyment of a true 

 amateur. 



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